Oh, the festivities

This week is pretty big for my group of friends in Aberdeen. Two people, Callum and Kelsie, are turning 18 and can finally (legally) drink! This of course means a TON of club hopping and drink buying is called for... only the strong will survive this coming weekend.

Lectures came and went on Monday like any other day. I definitely slept like a dead person until like 11... I could really get used to not having class until 1. The only really exciting part of the day was when Mina, Toni, Johanne and I decided to finally try out the online grocery shopping. We had a pretty good time sitting in the kitchen looking at the endless ASDA list of food. We have decided that we love to eat too much, though. It's kind of ridiculous how quickly we go through food, especially cookies. Literally we eat multiple packs of chocolate chip cookies a day. We actually are buying a cookie monster poster to hang in the kitchen. It's very fitting lol. But I really love living with my Bulgarians and Norwegian :) Dinner time is always really nice since the four of us have sit down dinners and we cook real food. Mina and Toni are really good at cooking, so everything is always so good! I generally stick to making salads, but I've cooked a good number of times too. They promised to show me some of their recipes. Mina and her mom are dying for a good chocolate chip cookie recipe lol.

Monday night was actually a little different than normal... we didn't go to the union!! Crazy, I know! Lol Kelsie, Bri, and I actually went over to the guys' flat in our pajamas for a movie night. It was a lot of fun actually. Especially when we show up in our frumpy clothes/onesies and none of them are wearing their onesies... they had a good laugh at that but I didn't care. My long underwear was perfect for sitting and watching Happy Gilmore. I kind of really love that movie lol. All the guys were so impressed at how well I quoted it. Then we started talking about some other movies/actors and they were like "lydia you watch too many movies"... it's true lol. But it was a really fun and relaxing evening. Definitely the calm before the storm (Tuesday night = Callum's birthday).

Even though I had a really relaxing night, I didn't make it to my 9:00 Vikings! lecture. It was the first one I've skipped, but I'm soo glad I did. Kelsie and Jo told me that they didn't even have the actual lecture because the computer was having issues in the lecture theater. What a win on my part. I definitely needed those couple extra hours of sleep. The rest of the day went pretty well. I had physical chemistry lecture and lab and both went surprisingly pretty well. I think the lab was alright because I have literally done the same experiment like twice before. It was a lot of titrations and stuff dealing with solutions, so it's good I was comfortable with it. I really am a nervous chemist in the lab lol. After lab, I went back to the flat to find 2 angry Bulgarians and a peeved Norwegian. The ASDA grocery delivery was running really late and everyone was hungry and we had no idea when we would get our groceries. It's pretty funny how food oriented we are lol. When the groceries finally came everyone rejoiced and we made an amazing pork loin and brussel sprout dinner...  yumm :) Johanne is finally starting to get the hang of the use of spices and marinade lol. Mina and Toni are really in to using spice, like me. But Johanne tells us that in Norway literally all the use is like salt and pepper. The young padowan is learning very quickly, though.

A little later in the evening I was walking to Bri's flat but ended up getting herded into Callum's flat kind of early so I was awkwardly hanging out with all the guys for a little bit before Kelsie, Bri, and Jo finally showed up. Catherine was there for a little, but we aren't super close yet so it was kind of awkward chats until I took over control of the iPod :) We all hung out in the kitchen and met Callum's kind of weirdo German flatmates. It was funny to see the different levels everyone was at even that early in the night. Everyone got kind of dressed up for town, but it was absolutely freezing outside. The rain and wind made you feel like you were dying, literally. Just walking to the union after hanging out in Callum's flat was really REALLY difficult. But the worst was yet to come. After hanging out at union for a little bit (Bri played our favorite song lol) we caught a bus to town. Apparently a lot of people have the same birthday as Callum because the bus was packed with screaming, annoying drunk people who kept singing happy birthday and acting like idiots. The bus ride definitely sucked, but once we got into town we had a really good time. Kelsie's fake ID was confiscated so she and Bri went home early which really sucked since I was pretty much left alone to help walk Jo (in her crazy high heels) all around town. We went to so many different places. Some kind of sucked or closed early or were having closed parties, so the walking wasn't exactly great. Thank god I wore flats. But my bare legs were kind of hating me fore sure, the wind was really harsh. At one point we were trying to get into Liquid and it was so cold at this point that James and Greg (who didn't have coats) were shaking so  hard that Jo and I did the awkward open your coat and you put your arms around me for a nice awkward hug with James and Greg. They were literally like ice cubes but my coat is totally boss and it kept us pretty warm. It was hilarious doing the like crab waddle in the queue. While we were standing in that line some assholes tried to cut us and we all ended up really yelling at some random douces. We nearly got into a fight... and then we couldn't even get inside that club because of the stupid closed party :P But we went to Priory and that was amazing. We danced for a few hours and hung out there. Greg was taking pictures the entire night, so there definitely are some of my fiercely dancing lol. We all had a really good time, though so who cares that I dance like a maniac. it was really nice that the club wasn't crazy packed so there was ample space for my spastic dance moves lol. After that we hit up McDonalds (soo American!) lol and then we all went back to our rooms and passed out. My blankets never felt so good after all that walking in like antarctic weather :P but I had a really good time with Jo and the guys. The pictures will be hilarious, even though Greg was way too committed about documenting everything (ie. how my skirt rode up way too much when I walked/carried Jo). I will get him back at a later date when he least expects it. I really don't want my legs/bum to be a topic of conversation with those boys when they go through the pictures... oh well. Everyone had a great time but we all agree that Callum didn't get nearly drunk enough (ie. not puking) so we will have some more festivities this weekend before Kelsie's birthday! WOO!